• 1. Symmetric presentations and orthogonal groups C. M. Campbell, G. Havas, S. A. Linton and E. F. Robertson; 2. A constructive recognition algorithm for the special linear group F. Celler and C. R. Leedham-Green; 3. Relations in M666 J. H. Conway and C. S. Simons; 4. A survey of symmetric generation of sporadic simple groups R. T. Curtis; 5. Harish-Chandra theory, q-Schur algebras, and decomposition matrices for finite classical groups G. Hiss; 6. The Meataxe as a tool in computational group theory D. F. Holt; 7. Branching rules for modular projective representations of the symmetric groups J. F. Humphreys; 8. Characters and surfaces: a survey G. A. Jones; 9. On the characterization of finite groups by characters W. Kimmerle; 10. Finite linear groups of small degree A. S. Kondratiev; 11. Minimal parabolic systems for the symmetric and alternating groups W. Lempken, C. Parker and P. Rowley; 12. Probabilistic methods in the generation of finite simple groups M. W. Liebeck and A. Shalev; 13. Condensing tensor product modules K. Lux and M. Wiegelmann; 14. Intersections of Sylow subgroups in finite groups V. Mazurov and V. I. Zenkov; 15. Anatomy of the monster S. P. Norton; 16. An integral 'Meat-axe' R. A. Parker; 17. Finite rational matrix groups: a survey W. Plesken; 18. Chamber graphs of sporadic group geometries P. Rowley; 19. An Atlas of sporadic group representations R. A. Wilson; 20. Presentations of reductive Fischer groups F. Zara; 21. Historical remarks J. H. Conway, R. T. Curtis and R. A. Wilson.

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